Affordability crisis

• Soaring food inflation has 72% of families with kids worried: Ipsos poll

  New polling from Ipsos shows that families with kids are being hit hard by inflation, as are younger workers and women, as Canadians fear salaries won't keep pace with price hikes.

  Money

  Jun 22
  
• Housing affordability in Ontario has eroded faster than any province amid COVID-19: report

  Generation Squeeze found that with current home prices, a new homebuyer would have to work full-time for nearly 22 years to save up enough money for a 20 per cent down payment.

  Economy

  May 18
  
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• Vancouver councillor calls for end to financial incentives to developers under rental program

  Coun. Jean Swanson says the Rental 100 program isn't actually creating affordable rentals in the city.

  Mar 31, 2019
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• Online house-sitting service exposes possible loophole in Vancouver’s foreign buyers tax

  The Craigslist ad offers house-sitting services to people looking to avoid the 15 per cent extra tax.

  Mar 27, 2019
• Vancouver city council considers scrapping rental housing incentive program over high rents

  The Rental 100 program gives breaks to developers for setting aside rental units, but critics say it's not creating affordable housing.

  Consumer

  Mar 24, 2019
• Tofino mayor calls hospital’s use as shelter for homeless a ‘clarion call’ for housing crisis

  "I personally was unaware that people were staying overnight in the hospital sometimes because they simply didn't have an adequate home to go back to," the mayor said.

  Mar 24, 2019
• Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley on goals for 2019: ‘The biggest challenge is housing’

  The man who took down Derek Corrigan reflects on his first few months as a politician and looks ahead to solving affordability issues in the new year.

  Politics

  Dec 27, 2018
• For $7M, you can own this fixer-upper home in Vancouver’s West End

  The listing admits the home needs "a little TLC," but promotes the potential for a laneway house to be built in the rear of the property.

  Money

  Mar 20, 2018
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• New market rental housing project breaks ground in Coquitlam

  The 41-unit building in Austin Heights is the first market rental development to break ground in Coquitlam in 40 years.

  News

  Mar 17, 2018
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• Vancouver unveils Marpole modular housing project

  The City of Vancouver has opened the doors of the temporary modular housing project in Marpole.

  Feb 11, 2018